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Biopsychosocial Correlates of Adjustment to Cancer during Chemotherapy: The Key Role of Health-Related Quality of Life
المؤلفون المشاركون
المصدر
العدد
المجلد 2019، العدد 2019 (31 ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2019)، ص ص. 1-12، 12ص.
الناشر
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
تاريخ النشر
2019-03-10
دولة النشر
مصر
عدد الصفحات
12
التخصصات الرئيسية
الطب البشري
تكنولوجيا المعلومات وعلم الحاسوب
الملخص EN
Background.
Patients adjust to cancer in a continuous process that follows the course of the disease.
Previous research has considered several illness-related variables and demographics, quality of life, personality, and social factors as predictors of adjustment to cancer, which can be maladaptive (e.g., helplessness-hopelessness and anxious preoccupation) or adaptive (e.g., fighting spirit).
Aims.
Assuming a biopsychosocial view, we test an empirical model in which disease stage, patient’s age, and gender are viewed as the distal antecedents of positive and negative adjustment to cancer for chemotherapy patients.
Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) has a key role, interposing between the distal antecedents and adaptational outcomes.
Social support and positive thinking are also included in the model as related to adjustment.
Methods.
One-hundred-sixty-two consecutive cancer patients receiving adjuvant or standard chemotherapy participated in the study.
Patients completed the Mini-Mental Adjustment to Cancer, the Brief-COPE, the Social Provision Scale, and the SF-12 Health Survey.
Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was applied for model building and hypotheses testing.
Results.
We found a negative association between advanced stage and physical functioning, a strong positive link between physical functioning and mental health, and significant relations between mental health and helpless-hopelessness, anxious preoccupation, and cognitive avoidance.
Social support and positive thinking were related to fighting spirit and fatalism.
Cancer stage and female gender were indirectly associated with adaptational outcomes through HRQoL.
The patient’s age had no significant relationships in the model.
Discussion.
HRQoL (both physical and mental) is a key factor for preventing maladjustment in chemotherapy patients.
Social support and positive thinking coping style fosters fighting spirit and fatalism on health outcomes.
Two potential lines of action seem promising: preventing maladaptive and promoting adaptive adjustments working on patient’s mental health individually and involving significant others in supportive care, respectively.
نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)
Lauriola, Marco& Tomai, Manuela. 2019. Biopsychosocial Correlates of Adjustment to Cancer during Chemotherapy: The Key Role of Health-Related Quality of Life. The Scientific World Journal،Vol. 2019, no. 2019, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1211927
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)
Lauriola, Marco& Tomai, Manuela. Biopsychosocial Correlates of Adjustment to Cancer during Chemotherapy: The Key Role of Health-Related Quality of Life. The Scientific World Journal No. 2019 (2019), pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1211927
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)
Lauriola, Marco& Tomai, Manuela. Biopsychosocial Correlates of Adjustment to Cancer during Chemotherapy: The Key Role of Health-Related Quality of Life. The Scientific World Journal. 2019. Vol. 2019, no. 2019, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1211927
نوع البيانات
مقالات
لغة النص
الإنجليزية
الملاحظات
Includes bibliographical references
رقم السجل
BIM-1211927
قاعدة معامل التأثير والاستشهادات المرجعية العربي "ارسيف Arcif"
أضخم قاعدة بيانات عربية للاستشهادات المرجعية للمجلات العلمية المحكمة الصادرة في العالم العربي
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